Scarce broadside map of the Theater of War in China and Korea, issued as a "Prime Gratuite" by the Petit Parisien. The map is centered on Korea and identifies by Color the regions owned by the different stakeholders in the War: Russia-Green...
Highly detailed large format map of the Harbin and Vladivostok areas, with a large inset map of Sanghalien Island. The map is dated year of Meiji era 38th and locates roads, railroads and other features.
Interesting Soviet-era map of Manchuria, with particular focusing on the natural mineralogical resources of the region and the efforts to exploit them. The key in the upper right has symbols for iron ore, gold ore, salt, etc. Rail lines are depicted...
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The Earliest Known Map of China. Extremely rare and early example of the emblematic Dili Tu (墬理圖) [Geographic Map of China] stone map, originally made in circa 1190 by the Chinese polymath Huang Shang (黃裳). The map is a traditional Chinese...
Finely colored example of Lorenz Fries map of China, Japan and adjoining regions, the first printed map to focus on China. Fries map of eastern Asia is the first European map to focus on the region of Japan and China alone . This map derives from...
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Gorgeous Ptolemaic map of Central Asia and Tartary and Western China, from Lorenz Fries' edition of Ptolemy's Geographia. This map is largely based on the 1513 map by Waldseemuller. Lorenz (Laurent) Fries was born in Alsace in about 1490. He studied...
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First State of Ortelius' Map of China Old color example of the scarce first state of Ortelius' map of China, the first western map of China. Ortelius' map of China is taken directly from reports of the Portuguese mapmaker Luis Jorge de Barbuda...
Fine example of the second state of Ortelius' map of China, the first western map of China. Ortelius' map of China is taken directly from reports of the Portuguese mapmaker Luis Jorge de Barbuda (Ludovicus Georgius), who made a manuscript map of China...
Fine old color example of Gerard De Jode's map of Eastern Asia, published in 1593, Engraved by Joannes and Lucas van Deutecum, who's signature is in the lower left part. De Jode's map is drawn directly from the first (northern) two sheets of Giacomo...
The Rarest and Most Coveted Map of China Published in the Sixteenth Century Striking example of De Jode's map of China, one of the earliest maps of China printed in Europe and the first map to begin to show the emergence of Korea on a printed map....
Linschoten's Important Regional Map of China and Southeast Asia Splendid, ornate, sixteenth-century map of China, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Straits of Malacca, Borneo, Java, and Beach, engraved by Henricus Van Langren for...
The First Spanish Map of Southeast Asia and The Philippines Fine example of this rare map of China, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, etc., which first appeared in Herrera's Descripcion de las Indias Ocidentales, first published in Madrid in 1601. The...
Fine example of Hondius' map of China and Southeast Asia, from a French edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. One of the finest early Dutch maps of the region, first published in 1606 as one of the 37 new maps engraved for Jodocus Hondius' expanded...
Decorative map of China, Japan and Korea and includes the north portion of the Philippines from Jansson's Novus Atlas. The map depicts the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by the Great Wall), Korea as an island and the three main islands of...
Decorative map of China, Japan, the Island of Korea, and the northern part of Luzon. Notes Pakan al I. Formosa Sailing ships and decorative cartouche. A very detailed and highly decorative map, based upon Blaeu's map of the same title.
Blaeu's First Map of China Decorative map of China, Japan, Korea and including the north portion of the Philippines. The map depicts the eastern part of China (bounded in the west by the Great Wall), Korea as an island, and the three main islands of...
